Just how dire is "Israel's" situation? A look at the data

The military, demographic, and reputational situation of "Israel" in the last months of 2024.

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I woke up on a July Saturday morning to the pictures of “Israel’s” retaliation on Yemen, the pillars of smoke climbing to the skies like an impassable mountain. The occupier had hit an oil depot in Hodeidah during the night as retaliation for the sore humiliation Yemen had inflicted on them, when they managed to bypass all “Israeli” air defenses with a single explosive drone that struck its target in “Tel-Aviv” (real name Jaffa).

Hodeidah oil depot on fire, Yemen. July 20 2024.

The pictures were undoubtedly mighty and that was exactly the point of striking an oil depot, which was sure to look serious and astonishing to any onlookers.

But looks can be deceiving. As is always the case with the occupier, when they get brought to their knees they can only retaliate by lashing out in a shadow puppet show.

What did the attack on the oil depot do? It attacked some supplies of oil (from the richest region in the world!) and may have delayed some military operations. It did not destroy oil fields infrastructure or prevent Yemen from importing more oil.

Materially, the victory was so small for the occupier that it shouldn’t even be considered a blip against Ansarallah (also called the Houthis). Rather, their ‘victory’ is one of projection, one of saying “look what we can do if we use a fraction of our power… just assume we didn’t use it all right then”.

It’s this cockiness that made the “Israeli” department of defense say that “the fire burning in Hodeidah is seen across the Middle East.”

Okay, and?

It won’t erase the very real material gain of the drone attack Yemen successfully carried out. On the night of July 19, Ansarallah flew an explosive drone from their shores all the way through the Suez Canal and back to “Tel-Aviv” (Jaffa), successfully hitting its target over 2000 kilometers away.

Flight path of the Yemeni “Yafa” drone.

One single drone. They didn’t need more. It escaped all detection and, from what the videos show, there wasn’t even an attempt to bring it down.

This happened with one drone. What happens with one hundred? One thousand?

Yemen undoubtedly has more drones in stock. For the past ten years (and really for the past 60 years), they have fought for their independence. They know warfare, and they know how to carry out operations: Operation “Prosperity Guardian” and its subsequent failure show beyond any doubt that Yemen makes good on its promises, and that it can’t be bought or intimidated into silence.

As Yemenis said on social media after the port at Hodeidah was struck, what was that supposed to accomplish? The Saudis had been bombing them for more than 10 years. They’re not scared of a little fire.

I wrote these lines above back in July. Later, on October 26, “Israel” attempted to retaliate air strikes against Iran for the latter’s prior missile attack that brought the Iron Dome to its knees with just one salvo.

This retaliation had been talked about in the media for weeks following Iran’s missile salvo (itself a retaliation but we’re not counting), and Blinken himself went to “Tel Aviv” to talk about it with the Architect of Genocide himself, Nethanyahu. The planes had to make use of Jordanian and Iraqi airspace, flying over a distance of 2000 miles and requiring mid-air refueling. This operation did not happen without US involvement in several different capacities (to secure airspace and enable mid-air refueling to name just two.)

By all accounts, this was supposed to be the big retaliation — the one that would have disabled Iran once and for all. In fact, the attack was by all accounts aborted after the first IOF planes failed to strike any significant targets. From an Iranian friend who was in the affected zone at the time, 5 explosions were heard over his area (likely anti-air defenses) and then nothing more for over an hour. A few hours later, it was learned that one other spot had been targeted but not much damage had been reported. From this same source, I was told however that 4 Iranian servicemen had died in the strikes — This was the extent of the damages (the reported damage on chemical plants and refineries do not look conclusive at all and are still under investigation).

Military situation

It becomes quite clear that the IOF is incapable of defending itself against Yemen, Iran, Lebanon and even Gaza. Since their invasion of Lebanon on October 1st, we see also that the infantry doesn’t fare much better. Huge losses are reported every day from their side, including ranked officers for an entire battalion. Maps claim that “Israel” has advanced this or that many kilometers into Lebanon, but forget one thing: maps are fluid. Territory is not given and taken, but rather ceded and occupied. An advance may be allowed in one area to better defend another, or to better strike back later. There is also the UN Blue Line we must consider, a demilitarized zone near the border in which Hezbollah does not fight — but which the IOF tore through to invade Lebanon.

By and large in fact, the IOF has found it almost impossible to actually secure villages in Lebanon, preferring to stay on their outskirts and claim that they have taken the entire area for their social media videos.

They have also, in the course of this invasion, repeatedly attacked UNIFIL Forces (UN Security Forces’ mission in Lenanon) with tanks and guns indiscriminately. This will be important later when we took at their overall reputation.

The same scenario played out in Gaza: the IOF thought they were set to overtake Gaza and cut off Hamas in weeks. One year later, they have barely started to chip away at Hamas (but they certainly have taken their anger out on innocent civilians and children). Areas from which they had said Hamas had been “cleared” were found to suddenly be able to fire rocket salvos — here is just one from Rafah.

Bogged down in the quicksands of Gaza that devour all invaders and unable to achieve their stated goals there — rescuing the hostages that they have been bombing since last year — the IOF turned to Lebanon to save face. When that avenue did not work out (the IOF barely made it 400 meters past the border before being destroyed by Hezbollah), they looked to Iran. Once they saw that Iran was an impossible target for their army, they turned to UNIFIL — attacking the observer UN forces at several points.

Iran has humiliated the occupier with their October 1st retaliation, which invited no more than a firecracker in response from the famed ‘only democracy in the Middle East’. Reputationally, the IOF is now completely broken — Mossad and IOF had built a strong reputation over the 20th century, with the so-called Six Days War and Mossad’s hunting down of ex-nazis. This created a sort of myth around both units, and the IOF has in fact often been called the “most professional army in the world”, especially complimenting as it is a conscript army. Their technological advances for use in military operations was to be feared, with words like “facial recognition”, “AI”, and other buzzwords. These myths has been completely shattered and will never be uttered again after their invasion of Gaza — through their own actions that they document, the IOF has shown that they are no more than a band of war criminals with access to heavy weaponry.

The resistance’s success was to shatter that myth not only on the ambitious operation on October 7 (The Flood of al-Aqsa Operation), but every day since then.

We must also look at the logistics of the army.

The Merkava 4, which is the current model of tank “Israel” uses, is produced solely locally in the entity. When it was first put into commission in 2001, the target was to produce 50-70 per year. It’s highly likely that the actual number produced is lower, especially as the latest model, announced in 2018, of course requires more advanced hardware — it is said that it comes with a virtual reality helmet allowing operators to see outside the tank, but this doesn’t prevent the Resistance from detonating charges manually.

Gaza News+ relays Merkava casualties reliably on their Telegram channel, when announced by the Resistance in Gaza. To date and since October 7, they have published more than 115 instances of Merkava tanks being successfully targeted — meaning they suffered damage in some capacity (either requiring repairs or the complete scrapping of the tank).

While not all instances will result in the destruction of the tank, they do require to be repaired upon taking damage. In other words, for the 50-70 tanks that “Israel” can put into commission every year, more than a hundred were already taken out in the same timespan — and this is not even counting damage in Lebanon, where Hezbollah has more advanced weaponry to target tanks with (and does use it).

If an army is unable to replenish their casualties (whether material or personnel), then they will eventually not be able to fight. The rule of war is to “to render [the enemy] powerless to resist the victor's will” (Clausewitz, 1832) and inflicting sufficient logistical damage is indeed one way to render the enemy (sufficiently) powerless.

Of course, the United States provides lots of arms and bombs to the occupier for the purposes of the colonial project. However, even the United States is not impervious to logistical issues — and this has become painfully clear when one looks at the situation in Ukraine. Their over-reliance on private contractors to fulfill the needs of their army means that the United States military has, over time, become bloated and inefficient. The budget increases, but most of it goes to overpriced run-of-the-mill items towards an industry that is more interested in the golden eggs the government produces for them — after all, if there’s one company that can’t go bankrupt, it is the United States government.

For example, the giant Lockheed Martin has shared the information that it can only produce 50 missiles in a year. This amount is depleted in maybe a dozen operations. We see the same issue as with the Merkava: too few are being built to replenish losses.

Likewise, Hezbollah and Iran have been targeting, methodically, military sites — and very interesting ones at that. “Israel” is not a big territory geographically, and only has around eight actually important military sites, of which two are intelligence-gathering bases. Since November of last year, Hezbollah has been striking some of these sites, including Camp Glilot, one of these eight sites providing intel for the entire northern region of “Israel”. But they have also been targeting other strategic sites — in the month of November alone, Hezbollah struck Glilot (not the first time), Tel Haim, The Stella Maris Naval Base (coastal intel-gathering), and Eliakim and Tzrifin bases — these last two housing barracks and training facilities.

It becomes very clear that Hezbollah is baiting the enemy into their territory, a territory that they know well and control, while at the same time methodically taking out the eyes and ears of the regime. Remember that these bases are not only vital to the regime to help them prevent an invasion, they also use them to find (civilian) targets in Gaza and the West Bank.

On their end, Iran has been mostly targeting airfields, a vital component of the IOF’s military and genocide, as the entity relies overly on bombing runs rather than missile launches in their operations.

We do not forget Ansarallah either, who has been blockading the Red Sea (and by extension the Suez canal) valiantly, but has also started to attack the entity at its heart in Haifa and “Tel Aviv”. In two occasions, drones and missiles fired from Yemen managed to travel 2000km upstream to “Israel”, and take out their target without even so much as an attempt to take them down.

We see here that the Iron Dome, another ‘mythical’ weapon in the IOF’s arsenal, is completely helpless against these new weapons. Whatever the resistance is doing, it’s working. To help combat this humiliating colander situation, the US Army has actually sent an THAAD (Terminal High Altitude Area Defense) battery to “Israel” along with 100 US troops to operate it. But the US only has seven batteries in total. A standard battery consists of 48 interceptor missiles, of which the US has only 900.

In other words, provided that the United States is willing to deplete their entire stockpile for the IOF, that this interceptor battery can only be used around 18 times. From publicly available data, we can infer that only around 100 THAAD missiles are produced every year. Lockheed Martin itself announced the delivery of the 700th missile in October 2022, and the 800th in December 2023. This means that every year, THAAD batteries can only be used twice before putting a deficit on the stockpile.

Demographic situation

Demographically, the IOF has admitted to 726 IOF deaths and 4500 wounded across the board (security forces + civilians). However, they are known to downplay their numbers. In December 2023 (so less than 3 months after the genocide on Gaza started), a Haaretz investigation relayed by The Cradle found that while the IOF had reported that “only” 1593 soldiers had been wounded, they found that the number was actually 3,117, or over twice as high as the reports said. And this was only by December of last year.

The number of wounded according to the IOF is now at 4500 after a year of fighting both in Gaza and Lebanon, i.e. barely higher than it was a year ago, and so we can assume they are heavily downplaying their casualties.

By applying the same formula as Haaretz did (times two), we can estimate over 9000 IOF were wounded in Gaza alone.

Or, by extrapolating the October-December 2023 numbers, i.e. estimating that 1500 IOF get wounded every month, multiplying by 12 months in the year since then, we estimate around 18,000 wounded IOF — though again this doesn’t take into account the casualties sustained in Lebanon as the number solely concerned the Gaza battalions. Since there has been reshuffling from Gaza to Lebanon, however, we can estimate the same number of soldiers are currently on the ground as were in December of last year.

The general rule of thumb is that for every dead soldier there are three wounded. 18,000 wounded soldiers would mean that over 6,000 have been killed so far.

Again, these are all mathematical estimates based on incredibly downplayed data. ‘Israel’ insists that only ~726 of their soldiers were killed over one year, but Alistair Crooke, citing Hebrew media, talks about at least 900 dead soldiers in Lebanon since the invasion on October 1st.

Hezbollah has also forced all settlements in the north of the colony to be abandoned, leading to close to 100,000 internal refugees from the north of ‘Israel’ (as well as several thousands from near the border with Gaza). One stated reason and promise for invading Lebanon from Nethanyahu was that he would secure the border and let the refugees move back. After several months of fighting, this goal is no closer to being achieved than before.

Every day, occupation soldiers leave the front with missing limbs and other injuries. They are effectively taken out of combat forever and, because the bulk of the IOF is conscripted, find it difficult if not impossible to go back to work, essentially helping the economy stagnate. This creates a strain on the poor aftercare system in the entity, and more and more soldiers are left completely abandoned to their own devices after they come back. The occupier has admitted that on average, 60 new cases are being treated for rehabilitation — and this is the lowest figure, as we know they lie about their casualties. Following our earlier estimates, we can assume the real number is between 120 and 240 new cases submitted per day!

Moreover, nearly half of the cases are aged 21 to 30 — at the beginning of their adult life. These are people who will likely never work again.

And every so often, a settler takes his own life after coming back from Gaza.

This situation is simply a crisis in the making. Keep in mind that “Israel” is not a big country, the settler population amounts to a little below 8 million — on par with countries like Switzerland, Sweden or Libya. The problem “Israel” faces is not so much that 120 soldiers are forever taking out of commission every day, it’s that there is no improvement on that metric. This can go on for a few months, sure, but not for a few years.

We do know, however, that foreign mercenaries are coming to fight in Gaza — this has been reliably evidenced in videos and documents seized from soldiers killed in combat. At this time however, there are no reliable figures on their presence. From how often (or rather how rarely) these news come out, we can infer that they do not form yet a large contingent of the IOF.

Finally on the occupation soldiers, we note that many conscripts also refuse the call to mobilization. Just on October 9 of this year, one year after the Operation Flood of al-Aqsa, 130 reservists signed a letter saying they would refuse mobilization until a peace agreement was signed. However, the “Israeli” government is now refusing any negotiations with Gaza. Yesh Gvul, the moderate arm of the settler regime, said they received over 100 requests since October 7 from individuals refusing enlistment.

The broader demographics collapse is not painting a better picture at all. In the first six months of the invasion of Gaza, over half a million settlers had emigrated from the entity with no plans to return. Again, these are the official numbers and again, “Israel” still only went into October 2023 with a population of 8 million. In 2024, over 40,000 people emigrated. Just as with the wounded, it is mostly the younger population that leaves — people in their 20s and 30s accounted for 40% of the emigration figures.

Immigration doesn’t sufficiently cover this gap. In the first half of 2024, only 23,000 immigrants arrived to the entity. “Israel” also heavily relies on foreign workers to do the dirty jobs the ‘pure’ settlers won’t touch (notably in the kibbutzim), and many are now understandably realizing that it’s not a good idea to try and find work in “Israel” for the time being. We should add that in a report commissioned by the occupation government itself, they found that 100% of foreign agriculture workers have been sexually abused in some way during their time in “Israel”.

“Israel’s” current strategy is thus: to ethnically cleanse Gaza before their own collapse comes. The clock is ticking, and not much time is left. This strategy is very similar the US’ strategy of attrition [PDF] during the Vietnam War. In 1964, the US high command realized that they could not take on the Vietnamese forces conventionally, and so they devised a “winning” strategy of genocide: by killing more troops and civilians than the enemy (North Vietnam) could replenish, they would eventually destroy the entire organization.

Eventually, military achievements were counted not in territory occupied or logistical destruction, but in sheer numbers of Vietnamese killed and ratios. As we all know, this strategy did not work out for the US who was forced to leave Vietnam in 1976 (preceded, interestingly, by the pulling out of all US troops on the ground in 1973 as they were abandoning ship).

Economic situation

The economic situation of “Israel” is, for lack of a better word, best observed from the gutter in which it currently stagnates.

There are a lot of numbers to go through, but they all paint the same picture.

GDP growth, which measures the percentage change in GDP compared to the previous period, saw an abysmal -5.6% recession in the fourth quarter of 2023 (from October to December). 2024 opened with much of this loss recouped with 4% growth over the period, but now 2024 is ending with a 0.1 increase — essentially stagnation, a generally reliable precursor to recession.

[Side note: all metrics are available from the link above by navigating the sidebar, hency why they aren’t linked here every time.]

GDP growth per quarter compared to previous

When annualized, we see that GDP is expected to keep contracting, and not by a tiny amount. The entity’s own statistics show that starting in Q4 2023, the annualized rate (extrapolating the quarterly figures over the entire year) showed a -4.6% contraction in Q4 2023, followed by -1.11%, and -1.63% in the following quarters. A recession is defined as GDP contracting by over 2% for three consecutive months. Since the annualized rate is predicted over 12 months, “Israel” is very close to a full recession.

GDP growth annualized

GDP gives us some global view on the matter, and we can now delve into more specialized metrics.

The Consumer Price Index calculates the price of the average basket of goods for a given country and turns that into a 100 point baseline on a given date. Later, if the index is over 100, it means prices have increased since that baseline date. Likewise, if the index dips below 100, it means prices have decreased by so many percentage points.

The last calibration for “Israel” was made in June 2022 when the index was set to an exact 100. Since then, the index has reached an all-time high of 108.8 points, meaning that since June 2022, consumer goods are 8.8% more expensive in the country than they used to be only two years ago.

Consumer Price Index June 2022 = 100

Right now, inflation is mostly under control at a steady 3.5% rate. This is above target (the general rule of thumb is 2% yearly), but still within reasonable range. Unreasonable inflation would be something above 7 or 10%. Keep in mind that “Israel” receives 3 billion dollars in aid every year from the US year after year, without any conditions. On top of that, Biden signed off on various package deals to “Israel” throughout 2024, including for example a 14 billion dollars package in May of this year. While much of this money normally goes back to the US military-industrial complex to purchase weapons with, much of it was also pumped into the occupation’s economy to keep it afloat.

We see for example that exports (in US dollars) are not entirely affected since October 2023, though they continue on an earlier downward trajectory. I picked a wide timeline for this graph so that it would be easier to focus on general trends. A red dot marks September 2023 on the far edge of the chart.

Exports in USD Millions

We see that a longstanding decrease in export value continues throughout 2024, though the declining trend started around November of 2022. While exports did rebound a bit in August and September 2024, the trend is still going downward. Simply calculating the difference between Sep 2023 and June 2024 (before exports increased again) shows a 9% decline in exports.

However, at the same time, imports to the entity are increasing. This can signify that that the local economy is unable to fulfill demand. Generally, importing more than one exports is a concerning trend. On the chart below, September 2023 is once again marked in red while orange curves show the trends before and after that month.

Imports in USD Million

A sharp increase in imports is noted, from 6.49 billion USD to 7.9 — over a 20% increase.

N.B.: The dwindling economy is partly caused by divestment and boycott — keep BDS going, because it works!

As of September 2024, the trade deficit for “Israel” was of 2.77 billion USD towards imports during that month. Or in percentage points, “Israel” imports 50% more goods (in US Dollars terms) than it exports. This shows a very large trade deficit.

To put this in perspective, while most countries in the world are in trade deficits, “Israel’s” numbers put it alongside other countries at war like Ukraine.

On the ground, the situation is not looking like it’s going to improve any time soon. The ‘Eilat’ port has declared bankruptcy in July this year due to the blockade enacted by Ansarallah. This port was one of three major merchant ports for the entity, and the only one located in the Red Sea. It handled 2.6 million tonnes of cargo yearly versus 49 for the other two ports combined, or around 5% of all cargo tonnage in the state.

Already credit rating agencies (which other states base themselves on to determine lending rates) are lowering “Israel’s” credit rating and all see its credit outlook negatively, indicating further downgrades in the near future [scroll to the first table and type ‘Israel’ in the search bar].

The fall was quite sharp. S&P lowered the country from AA- to A on October 1st, which is a few notches below. Moody’s rating for the entity is now Baa1, falling from A2 (again a few notches below) earlier this year and joining the ranks of developing — and heavily exploited — economies such as Urugay, Thailand, Kazakhstan and Peru.

Certainly, Washington will bankroll all of the entity’s endeavours — Biden did it and Trump will continue the tradition. But even the US economy is not impervious to crisis, as the 2008 recession has showed us. There comes a point where all the money they are throwing at Ukraine and “Israel” will dry up, especially as both Democrats and Republicans, who form the lawmaking organ of Congress, both agree that China is their true enemy and that they have to start a war against the People’s Republic sooner rather than later. However, every time they announce new sanctions or tariffs against China, this comes to bite them back. The latest round of tariffs that president-elect Trump wants to raise against China are being decried by his own backers, i.e. business owners, because it raises their production costs. This means pricing some consumers out of the market, which means losing profit and destroying businesses (which for better or worse provide jobs), and essentially hurting the US economy in many ways.

If China retaliates against these tariffs, CNBC says, more than 800,000 jobs could be lost in the US economy by 2025.

In other words, the US economy is not as mighty as it appears and cracks are appearing that can’t be patched up. While there is no timeline yet on the horizon for its collapse, the signs have been here for years before that war in Ukraine or October 7. Remember that in its time, the Roman Empire was also considered too big to fail — but it eventually did.

Certainly in the age of finance capital actual production doesn’t mean as much as it used to. All countries take and give debt and print money on demand. Money is now created through lending, out of thin air on spreadsheets. But it doesn’t change the fact that one needs to extract resources from the earth and enact labor to transform them to actually produce anything valuable to society. Value can be abstracted behind printers and spreadsheets, but society runs on commodities.

The goal of the October 7 operation was to put the entity’s back against the wall. And on that, it succeeded. There is no way out of this crisis for “Israel”; there are no children they can kill that will make any of this go away, try as they might. It is now fighting on three fronts with not enough soldiers, dwindling materiel and a receding economy.

International Reputation

Finally, and perhaps more importantly, “Israel” has completely destroyed its international reputation. Carina Malatesta has graciously accepted to write this section, and I will leave you with her words (Subscribe to Carina’s newsletter here):

Many people across the world have always known that Israel was a terrorist entity of first the British regime and after the collapse passed onto the US empire. Interestingly enough, Israel was registered as a corporation not a nation upon its creation. A nefarious corporation for world domination and testing ground for weapons and human degradation by its colonial masters.

No Other Land brings attention on the continued oppression of Palestinians in Masafer Yatta, which has been under threat since 1981 when it was designated as a military training ground.

It took a lot of brainwashing, propaganda, rewriting of history, and indoctrination to have people (mostly western people) believe that Israel was actually a democracy.

The Zionist State has flaunted political impunity and an “above the law” swag on the world stage. Despite being backed by the might, money, and global hegemony of USA (and vassals) the chips appear to be falling hard and fast for both.

Israelis themselves acknowledge Netanyahu and the Israeli military are “conducting an ethnic cleansing operation” in northern Gaza.

Listed below are just are small example of Israel and USA growing isolation on the world stage despite the billions used to fund Zionist propaganda.

• Spain's Interior Ministry announced in October of this year that it is canceling a contract to purchase ammunition from an Israeli company, broadening its previous decision to halt arms sales to "Israel" to include acquisitions as well.

• The Spanish government this November has refused docking permission to two US cargo vessels, the Maersk Denver and the Maersk Seletar, which are suspected of carrying weapons destined for "Israel" amid the Gaza genocide.

• During the COP29 conference in Baku, Shady Khalil of the Oil Change International foundation, took a bold stand, addressing the critical role fossil fuels play in fueling the ongoing genocide in Palestine.

• Australia joined 158 countries, including the UK and New Zealand, in supporting a UN committee resolution that asserts the “permanent sovereignty of the Palestinian people in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem, and of the Arab population in the occupied Syrian Golan over their natural resources."

• The recognition of Palestinian statehood by Spain, Ireland, and Norway underscores the shifting political landscape in Europe.

• The government of Nicaragua announced it is cutting diplomatic ties with Israel, further contributing to its increasing isolation on the international stage amid the ongoing genocidal war on Gaza. 

• Israeli envoy faces French rebuke over al-Quds church incident. The dispute arose when Israeli police stormed the Eleona Church on the Mount of Olives without authorization and detained two French guards.

• International condemnation has been building against a series of Israeli tank strikes against the headquarters of the United Nations Interim Force In Lebanon (UNIFIL), indicating that patience is growing thin with Israel’s unhinged war crimes. 

• Belgian authorities announced that they have opened an investigation into potential war crimes committed by a Belgian-Israeli soldier partaking in the Israeli-led genocide on Gaza.

• Hotels across Europe are refusing to accept guests from Israel because of its genocide and massacre of children One of them is Hotel Garni Ongaro in northern Italy, which refused to receive Israeli guests, due to their support for the genocide in Gaza.

• In late May, an ethics committee at Ghent University in Belgium recommended ending all research collaborations with Israeli institutions. The committee also advocated for a Europe-wide suspension of Israeli involvement in research and education programs, which frequently rely on European Union funding.

In March of 2024, Ms. Albanese presented the report titled “Anatomy of Genocide” before member states of the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva. The report pointed out that Israel has committed three of the five acts constituting genocide as outlined in the Geneva Convention on Genocide.

A ground-breaking study by a coalition of prestigious academic institutions has concluded that Israel’s actions in Gaza since 7 October, 2023, constitute genocide against the Palestinian people.

The study, conducted by the University Network for Human Rights, the International Human Rights Clinic at Boston University School of Law, the International Human Rights Clinic at Cornell Law School, the Centre for Human Rights at the University of Pretoria, and the Lowenstein Human Rights Project at Yale Law School, presents a thorough legal analysis of Israel’s conduct in the context of the Genocide Convention of 1948.

The live streaming of a barbaric genocide in real time has completely destroyed the facade constructed by the western axis of evil. The pariah state of the USA and it’s vassals still continue to try and deceive people with censorship and lies. Now that Trump has taken over the US regime with his Israel first admin and his well known habit of saying the quiet part out loud we can only hope this speeds up the collapse of the US and thus brings about the end of their Zionist project.

The USA is bracing for Trump's return to office, and so is the Gulf region as it takes a harsher stance against "Israel" in favor of Palestine and Iran.

The Gaza genocide has produced a blatant disregard for the mission of the United Nations, including outrageous attacks on the employees, facilities and operations of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees. 

These attacks must stop and the world must act to hold the perpetrators accountable. 

At least 197 UNRWA employees have been killed in Gaza. Nearly 190 UNRWA premises have been damaged or destroyed. UNRWA-run schools have been demolished; at least 520 displaced people have been killed while sheltered inside UNRWA schools and other structures. Since Oct. 7, Israeli security forces have rounded up UNRWA personnel in Gaza, who have alleged torture and mistreatment while in detention in the Strip and in Israel. 

Israel’s banning of UNRWA should represent an opportunity for those concerned about the standing of the United Nations, to remind Israel that UN members who have no respect for international law deserve to be delegitimized.

Israel’s problem with UNRWA has little to do with the organization itself, but with its underlying political representation as a UN entity whose mission is predicated on providing “assistance and protection to Palestine refugees”.

The ongoing Gaza genocide and the push to annex large parts of the West Bank represented a golden opportunity for Netanyahu and his extremist government to increase the pressure on UNRWA. They have been enabled by unconditional US support, and the willingness of various western governments to recklessly act upon Israel’s false claims regarding the UN organization.

Israel says it will block United Nations visa requests.

What Israel has done goes well beyond what ordinary nations have, historically, at the UN, and is tantamount to a war against it.

Israel’s devastating barbarity unleashed on Gaza, and increasing settler outrages in the West Bank are giving fresh urgency to moves to suspend the “Jewish” state from the United Nations General Assembly.

Palestinian civil society has long been calling for such a step, and the Gaza genocide, along with the two major pronouncements from the International Court of Justice (ICJ) about Israel this year, have given the initiative new traction.

Why more than 500 scholars think Israel should be unseated from the UN.

At the start of the Israeli aggression on Lebanon for Lebanon’s role of legally trying to stop a genocide, the United Nations Interim Force In Lebanon was attacked.

The IDF’s deliberate and direct destruction of clearly identifiable UNIFIL property is a flagrant violation of international law and resolution 1701. We again remind the IDF and all actors of their obligation to ensure the safety and security of UN personnel and property and respect the inviolability of UN premises at all times.
 
Since 30 September, the IDF has repeatedly demanded that peacekeepers leave their positions near the Blue Line “for their safety.” Yesterday’s incident, like seven other similar incidents, is not a matter of peacekeepers getting caught in the crossfire, but of deliberate and direct actions by the IDF.
 
We also note with concern the destruction and removal this week of two of the blue barrels that mark the UN-delineated line of withdrawal between Lebanon and Israel (the Blue Line). Peacekeepers directly observed the IDF removing one of them.

After almost 14 months of watching a genocide live streamed and expanded to the entire region while Israel and it’s western backers try to deceive the world via controlled media, the world has had enough.

As the Israeli war crimes in Gaza, Lebanon, and Syria persist, waves of global outrage at this regime unfold day by day. What we witnessed in response to Zionist crimes and arrogance in Amsterdam will become a daily event if the world leaders continue to ignore the ongoing and ever expanding US/Israeli genocide in the region.

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